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Historian Michael Jarvis's opinion last week on previous epidemics in Bermuda was timely. He rightly said it has been so long since countries in the Western world experienced epidemics, let alone pandemics, that it is easy to assume that the Covid-19...

Imposing stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders for prolonged periods of time has always depended on the consent of the people. When Bermuda embarked on its efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, it had to put in place laws and severe penalties f...

David Burt said last night that he knew he was delivering the news that no one wanted to hear, not even those people who were expecting or even calling for further restrictions to arrest the wave of coronavirus cases that has assailed the island. Th...

On Sunday evening, it was announced that two people had died of Covid-19 over the weekend, the first deaths since January and the thirteenth and fourteenth since the beginning of the pandemic. Last night, 69 new cases were announced after 108 new cas...

Passing the Budget is the single most important act carried out by Bermuda’s Parliament in any given year. Pedants will point out that the Budget itself does not get passed and has no legal standing. There is a speech called a Budget Statement, which...

Last Friday night, with little debate, the most ambitious changes to Bermuda’s education system in decades sailed through the House of Assembly. Perhaps that is the price when the governing party has a massive majority. It may also have something to ...

There have been some objections to the decision to reimpose restrictions on social distancing in the wake of the sudden increase in coronavirus cases this week. Obviously, no one wanted to see those restrictions being increased, but the Government wa...

Another weekend, another Covid-19 breach. Even as Bermuda makes progress towards a semblance of normality, a few selfish people seem determined to set the entire community back. This is inexcusable. Whether you think the pandemic is a genuine threat ...

Today, The Royal Gazette embarks on a series examining some of the most far-reaching set of education changes in half a century. Overall, the reforms envisioned by the Ministry of Education propose to revamp the system for every child from the age of...

The Progressive Labour Party discovered this week that even a landslide General Election victory does not give a government a blank cheque to do whatever it wants. While the PLP was quick to frame the defeat of the Cannabis Licensing Act in the Senat...